On January 3, 2008, 20 provinces in southern China were damaged to varying degrees due to natural weather disasters.
The low temperature and the freezing brought by the sleet made the Southern Power Grid line unbearable and broke, and three emergency repairmen also died in the line of duty in the process of overtime repair. Bus terminals, train stations, airports, or long delays in many places are out of service.
These eleven days are the "Spring Festival of Hell's Difficulty", and the various difficulties and pressures brought by it are the craziest in history, and the ugliest side of human nature also erupts at this moment, but we finally pass the tests layer by layer.
This "lesson" taught China a harsh lesson, and after that, we started a crazy infrastructure construction and became an infrastructure demon in the eyes of foreigners.
Heavy snowstorm in 2008
2008 was the hardest year for China to forget, and it was also an incredibly difficult year.
The first is the "5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake", which killed and injured countless people in Sichuan, leaving a scar on the hearts of the Chinese people.
Second, the world broke out a financial crisis in this year, and the world's various economies were greatly affected by this.
As the forefront of China's economic development, many people leave their hometowns to work and work here, and they need to go home for the Spring Festival, which has a scene of 400,000 stranded people.
At that time, people were not economically rich, taking the train was the choice of the vast majority of people, the bus traffic was small, and the high cost of the plane was not the best choice.
On January 15, with the sleet and freezing rain all the way south, the long-distance passenger terminals and airports passed through could only be closed, and when the freezing rain arrived in Guangzhou, the only thing that was still open was the Guangzhou Railway Station, and the crowd flocked to it for a while.
On January 25, several high-voltage power lines for the power supply of electrified railways in Chenzhou City were crushed and broken by the icing layer, resulting in the complete paralysis of the southern section of the Beijing-Guangzhou Line, a major north-south artery that has been fully electrified, and all electric locomotives were lying in the garage of the Guangzhou locomotive depot of the Guangzhou Railway Group.
At this time, tens of thousands of homecoming people outside the station were waiting to be caressed, but the trains inside the station could not be opened to traffic because of the line blockage, and they suddenly fell into a dilemma.
At this time, many problems broke out at once, after all, this difficulty could not be predicted by anyone.
Backward diesel locomotives have been eliminated, and the staff has no backup plan, which will take a lot of time to reassemble and start.
Administrative units at all levels are also very uncoordinated, unable to achieve overall planning, the pace is consistent, the information is very chaotic, and the command is relatively difficult. In order to alleviate the contradiction, the radio station announcer even said with a crying voice, "Stay, Guangzhou is also your home", that is, I hope that some people can stay in Guangzhou without going home for the New Year.
Suddenly, the surrounding hotels were full, and the people in the crowd were all you next to me and me next to you, walking without feet completely squeezed. Pee on the toilet, a hundred meters away is also several hours, has been for a few days, not even eat, at this time 150 yuan a bucket of instant noodles will not be blamed.
In order to prevent crowd chaos and prevent stampedes, a total of more than 40,000 armed police officers and men formed a human wall to separate the people, and also bought cabbage to cook around, only the elderly and children have a chance to get it, and those who do not prepare food in advance can only starve, and some people are hungry for a few days.
The people's panicked, uneasy, anxious hearts surged into their hearts, and everyone desperately squeezed to the platform just to feel at ease, and they could have the opportunity to go home at the first time.
However, in order to maintain order and definitely prevent this kind of behavior, the two sides broke out into a conflict, and some people angrily smashed the mineral water bottles and garbage bags in their hands at the officers and men of the armed police.
With the suppression of the environment, some people were trampled, some colds and illnesses must be treated in time, before beating people, scolding people instead raised their hands high to raise the patients and injuries above their heads to the hands of officers and soldiers.
The director of the "Return Train" documentary was on the scene, he took the camera to record everything that happened, the dark piece of human nature pushed down all the rules, reason was overcome by anxiety, some people saw him holding the camera and thought he was a reporter, and people around him complained to him.
On January 26, 2008, the transportation at the station began to restart, and people who had been waiting for many days and nights finally breathed a sigh of relief, and after coordinating and struggling with all parties, people finally embarked on the way home and returned to the home they were looking forward to for a good year.
Although the time was mainly because of the disaster, in essence, the sea or our infrastructure was too poor, and the power grid line was broken because the ice and snow exceeded the maximum threshold, so China made a big decision later.
Our national grid later developed into a world-class level. Roads, railways, airports and other transportation infrastructure began to be built wildly, and there was also the slogan of "building roads in rich counties", and the country basically realized the highway "county pass", highway village and village pass.
In 2011, the 12306 ticket purchase website was opened, and it was no longer a one-person-one-window ticket purchase.
Now we have the fastest EMU in the world, and our high-speed rail not only has the longest domestic mileage in the world, but also goes abroad for sale and has become a national business card.
The operating mileage of China's high-speed railway has exceeded 40,000 kilometers, and the total mileage has been able to circle the earth's equator for one week; the total mileage of China's railway operation has exceeded 150,000 kilometers.